WASHINGTON — In a win for Republicans, the Supreme Court said Thursday that student IDs cannot be used in New Hampshire for the midterm elections.The justices granted an emergency request filed by the state, which had the backing of the Republican National Committee.The ballot in New Hampshire includes a closely watched Senate race that could play a key role in deciding control of the chamber.Republican former Sen.
John E.Sununu is pitted against Democratic Rep.
Chris Pappas for the seat held by retiring Democratic Sen.Jeanne Shaheen.The brief court order said a federal judge should not have ordered a change in voting rules so close to the Nov.
3 election, citing existing precedent on that point.“Here, the District Court did not point to anything that would justify deviating from that principle,” the unsigned order said.Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the sole dissenter.“I would not disturb a clearly justifiable federal court order issued to ensure that the public receives accurate information about a State’s electoral processes,” she wrote.While a state law restricting use of student IDs as a primary form of identification was already on the books, the decision means potential voters also cannot use them as backups when they seek to establish their identities.The dispute arises from a state law enacted in April that removed student IDs from the list of forms of identification that election officials would accept when someone requests a ballot.For SubscribersFOR SUBSCRIBERSRepublicans retreat from North Carolina as Trump admits Democrats are likely to win the Senate seatFOR SUBSCRIBERSNetflix’s latest cliff-hanger? Where it’s headed as a business.FOR SUBSCRIBERSOpenAI agents are shutting off ways to monitor misbehaviorFOR SUBSCRIBERSWhy John Turturro is having the best year of any New YorkerFOR SUBSCRIBERSJames Talarico digs in with Black voters in pursuit of an elusive Democratic win in TexasFOR SUBSCRIBERSRussian operatives likely spr...